Po moje bi moral vsakdo Louvre doživeti sam. Vsaj jaz si ne predstavljam, da bi šla v skupini z vodičem. Ali pa z otroki. Meni so bile sobane in slike in kipi bili dovolj./ In my opinion, everyone should experience Louvre on their own. I cannot imagine walking around in a group with a guide. Or with the children. The halls and paintings and sculptures - it was all I needed.

Ampak nisem slikala največjih umetnin. Slikala sem ljudi, kako slikajo Mono Lizo. In kako s slušalkami na ušesih poslušajo vodiča, ki jim pripoveduje o Miloški Veneri. In otroke, ki jih je učiteljica pripeljala gledat Rubensove portrete. Še bolj pa so me fascinirali najrazličnejši dekorativni predmeti, neskončno velike tapiserije, izrezljane skrinjice - pač stvari, za katere si lahko vsaj približno predstavljam, koliko ur, dni, tednov, let je nekomu vzelo, da jih je izdelal./ But I didn't take photos of the greatest works of art. Instead, I took a photo of people taking photos of Mona Lisa. And people with headphones on their ears, listening to the guide telling them about the Venus of Milos. And children who were brought to the museum by their teacher to see portraits painted by Rubens. But I was even more fascinated by various decorative objects, endlessly large tapestries, carved caskets - well, the things for which I can vaguely imagine how many hours, days, weeks, years it took the people to make them.

Tale je z Montmartra./ This one's from Montmartre.

Tale je iz Notre Dame./ This one's from Notre Dame.

Tale je iz ene od pasaž./ This one's from one of the passages.

Metro je že sam po sebi fascinanten - razsežnost in hkrati enostavnost sistema (moraš biti popolnoma funkcionalno nepismen, če ti ne potegne), da ne govorim o hitrosti in zanesljivosti. In toliko različnih ljudi vidiš - toliko lepih ljudi! In toliko različnih jezikov slišiš.No, potem pa naletiš še na takšen pisan vhod na eno od postaj./ The Metro itself is fascinating - its size and its simplicity (you have to be totally functionally illiterate if you don't get it how it works), not to mention its speed and reliability. And you get to see so many different people - so many beautiful people! And you get to hear so many different languages.And you can also come across such a colourful entrance to the one of the stations.

In izložba, ki ti da idejo, kaj narediti, če se ti slučajno nabere okoli tristo starih šivalnih strojev - takih izložb, kot je ta na sliki, ima ta trgovina vsaj šest./ And a window shop to give you an idea what to do if you accidentally end up with three hundred antique sewing machines - the shop has at least six windows like this one.

- A coffee maker - I got one just like this years ago from my brother-in-law who always gets us the coolest presents. But, being such a heavy coffee drinker, I managed to break it and I couldn't find a new one.- A fridge magnet for my dad.- A little souvenir plate for Keti's neighbour.

... of my blog's background. I found it at Delightful Dots, and all I had to do was to adjust colours of the text. It'll do for a month or so, and then I'll probably go back to something monochromatic again.

Žičko sem na obeh koncih potegnila ven, da se je trak začel gubati. Pri modrem traku sem to naredila samo z eno žičko, pri zelenem pa z obema./ I pulled the wire out on both ends and the ribbon began to wrinkle. I did it with one wire on the blue ribbon and with both wires on the green one.

Po dve žički sem trdno zvezala - na sliki je viden rezultat. (Tiste senčke so mi bile tako všeč, da nisem iskala drugega položaja za slikanje.)/ I tied two and two wires firmly together - you can see the result in the photo. (I liked those shadows so much I didn't even try to find another position for taking photos.)

Ko je trakec sklenjen v krogec, so možnosti za okraševanje in uporabo omejene samo z domišljijo. Jaz sem jim do sedaj največkrat dodala gumbe (ki sem jih "prišila" kar z žičko), na sliki je tudi primer s papirnatimi rožicami in razcepko./ When the ribbon has been pulled together to a circle, the possibilities of decoration and application are limited only by imagination. So far, I've decorated most of them by adding a button (which I was able to sew on by using the ends of the wire), and there is also an example of paper flowers and a brad.

Ko sem imela nekaj rožic narejenih, sem jih z žičkami privezala na zelen mrežast trakec in nastalo je tole:/ When I had a few flowers ready, I used their wires and tied them to a piece of green netted ribbon - this is what I ended up with:

19 marec 2009

Tisti karirasti košček papirja je "kriv" za to voščilnico. Eno deklico sem imela pobarvano v rdečih tonih, pa je malo plesala po modrih in belih kvadratkih in sem kar videla, da jo bom morala preobleč (beri "pobarvat še eno"). Potem pa so preostali koščki spet kar padli skupaj. Še najbolj sem bila presenečena, ko mi je kar tako, slučajno, iz gumba in malo rafije prifrfotal metuljček - tisti desno spodaj./ That little piece of chequered paper is to be "blamed" for this card. I had one little girl coloured in red tones, but she came along, dancing over blue an white squares and I just saw that I will have to make her change her clothes (as in "colour another one"). And the rest of elements just fell together again. But I was quite surprised to see the butterfly - the one in the lower right corner - flutter from my hands just by using a button and a little bit of raffia.

Se pri katerem blogu kategorije tudi prekrivajo, a naj ostane tako.Poleg tega izbora seveda z velikim zanimanjem in veseljem preberem tudi vse tiste, ki so na mojem seznamu, in tudi tiste, do katerih priskakljam po malo bolj zavitih poteh. Kaj vse se najde! Eh, pa kaj vam bom govorila, saj veste./ Some blogs could fit in more than one category, but I'll leave it that way.In addition to these ones, I read with great interest and joy all other blogs I have on my list and many others I reach through different "channels". The things you find! But you know that already.

Today, every person related to Ireland in any aspect whatsoever is celebrating St. Patrick's Day. And as Kaja75 has also been strongly related to Ireland lately, I'm dedicating this little playful meadow to her, along with my sincere wishes for all her plans for the project (and everything else) to be fulfilled just the way she wants them to.

And I'm also sending my greetings to Barbi who is in Ireland at the moment.

I've been realising lately how useful it actually was to buy those two sets of pre-made cards. This birthday card for a friend of mine from my college years was finished in less than half an hour - it took me that much to colour and cut out the motive and to adhere the buttons and four punched out daisies.

The girl on today's card is from the rubber stamps series Gorjuss Girls by Suzanne Woolcott. And as it has already happened several times, I didn't like the motives in the beginning, but then they just somehow found their way to my colour pencil holder... And the card base was also there, not to mention ribbons and brads.

Objavo začenjam z darilci za gostiteljici. Vsaki en komplet štempiljkaste abecede, nekaj obročkov za knjigice, odtiskov, razcepk in ena mini torbica./ I'm beginning this post with presents for both hosts. I got each of them a set of alphabet stamps, a few book rings, stamped images, brads and one of my mini bags.

Sledi darilce, ki sem ga že na prvi jutranji kavi na poti na srečanje dobila od Kaje75. Blazinica za bucike v mojih barvah./ The following is the gift I got from Kaja75 when we stopped for the first morning coffee on our way to the meeting. A pin cushion in my colours.

S Kajo75 sva na srečanju predali tudi rojstnodnevno darilo Lidočki, ki je praznovala pred nekaj dnevi./ Kaja75 and I also gave the present to Lidočka who celebrated her birthday a few days ago.

S predpasnikom je bila ena izmed glavnih zvezd srečanja./ The apron made her one of the brightest stars of the meeting.

Pa še nekaj stvari, ki sem jih naredila v delavnicah./ Let me show you some things that I made in the workshops.

Najprej origami škatla in knjižnica, ki smo ju izdelovali v delavnici presenečenja, ki jo je vodila Lea iz Memories./ First of all, an origami box and a booklet we made in the surprise workshop organized by Lea from Memories.

In seveda nisem mogla mimo mamčine mize s Stekleničkami upanja. In sem naredila tri. Na vsaki je nekaj, kar sem preizkusila prvič in kar bom vsekakor še uporabila. Na prvi sem vadila izdelavo srčkov, na drugi sem prvič naredila kačje pastirje, na tretji pa mi je uspelo (na fotki se ne vidi) pokrovček prekriti s prepletenimi FIMO trakovi. Bom še naredila in pokazala./ And of course I couldn't ignore mamči's table with Bottles of Hope. I made three. Each of them has something I tried to do for the first time and will definitely use again. On the first one, I practised making little hearts, on the second one I made ma dear dragonflies for the first time, and on the third (it doesn't show in the photo), I managed to cover the cap with interwoven FIMO bands. I'll make some more and show them then.

Jupi, še samo štirideset dni do našega naslednjega srečanja!/ Yippie, only forty more days until out next meeting!